For the first time, U.S. Army units moved into central Baghdad
from the north.

Spot 2: River crossing secured

Army tanks and armored personnel carriers, protected by
warplanes, secured the Jumhuriya Bridge over the Tigris River.

Spot 3: Journalists killed in hotel

An American tank fired at the Palestine Hotel killing two
cameramen and wounding three other journalists.

One cameraman was with Reuters and one with Spanish
television.

The hotel is used by many foreign journalists.

Spot 4: Network offices bombed

Al-jazeera's Baghdad office was bombed, killing one staffer.
While the network's cameras rolled, a second bomb fell in the same neighborhood
near the Tigris, where a number of TV channels have offices.

Abu Dhabai TV said its office had also been hit.

Spot 5: Massive bombs strike at leadership

A B-1 bomber struck a residence in the upscale Mansur
neighborhood with four 2,000-lb. bunker-buster bombs. Intelligence reports said
senior Iraqi officials, possibly including Saddam and his two sons, were meeting
there.

Iraqi rescue workers pulled bodies from the rubble, but it is
not clear who was killed.

Spot 6: U.S. forces remain in palace

Members of the 3rd Infantry Division hunkered down for the night
in the New Presidential Palace.

U.S. troops set up a prisoner of war holding pen in the palace
compound where at least a dozen Iraqis are being held.

"There has been no organized resistance or effort to displace
the coalition forces," said Navy Capt. Frank Thorp.

Spot 7: Iraqis battle for intersection

Iraqi forces staged a counterattack in the capital shortly after
dawn Tuesday, sending buses and trucks full of fighters to overrun U.S. forces
holding a strategic intersection. Within an hour, U.S. tanks retook the
intersection. Two U.S. soldiers were reported wounded, one seriously, by snipers
on rooftops.

Spot 8: Iraq battles to retake airport

Meanwhile, at Baghdad's airport, members of the 101st Airborne
Division fought Iraqis in military uniform in a prolonged overnight battle,
killing at least 100 fighters.

An Iraqi missile shot down an American A-10 Warthog ground
attack plane near the International Airport. The pilot was rescued.

Iraq

Spot 1: Northern oil hub targeted

Coalition warplanes pounded Iraqi positions in and around
Kirkuk. It was one of the heaviest attacks yet, a Kurdish commander
said.

Gen. Tommy Franks, the overall commander, visited Najaf on his
way to Baghdad from his forward command base in Qatar. He also visited two other
locations that were not disclosed.

Spot 3: Massive bombs strike at leadership

A B-1 bomber struck a residence in the upscale Mansur
neighborhood with four 2,000-lb. bunker-buster bombs. Intelligence reports said
senior Iraqi officials, possibly including Saddam and his two sons, were meeting
there.

Iraqi rescue workers pulled bodies from the rubble, but it is
not clear who was killed.

Spot 4: Local sheik put into power

The British said they were putting a local sheik into power in
the city. The sheik met British divisional commanders Monday and was given the
job of stting up an administrative committe representing other groups in the
region.

Spot 5: Stray rocket crashes in Iran

The third rocket to hit Iranian territory since the war started
landed outside the port city of Abadan. Iranian state-run telebision says that
the explosion killed a 13-year-old boy.

Iranian officials said the rocket was from a U.S.-led coalition
warplane. The Pentagon had no immediate information about the claim.

Baghdad Region

Spot 1: Marines capture prison

Marines took over a prison at Rashid Airfield in southeastern
Baghdad overnight.

Shortly after dawn, Iraqis attacked the Marines with
rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s; Marine snipers shot more than a dozen of
them.

Spot 2: Military tests suspicious drums

Defense officials said samples of a suspicious material found in
Iraq are being tested for the presence of chemical weapons. Soldiers found the
substance in metal drums in a compound near the city of Hindiyah.

Spot 3: U.S. searches for Iraqi paramilitary

The 101st Airborne assaulted Hillah, near ancient Babylon. The
Army bypassed Hillah in its race to Baghdad, and soldiers have begun to clean
out paramilitary fighters who are holed up in the city.